SmallNews 2.1

Friday, June 04, 2010

SmallNews 2.1 is available for download. This has two changes since v2.01:

Added the option to create an iPad-optimized PDF file
Fixed a bug which prevented ePub working on MacOSX 10.5 (Leopard)

I've been using my iPad to read the news for over a month now and have observed a couple of things.

Yes, it a very nice device to read news directly from the newspaper web sites, and for a while I did this instead of using SmallNews. However, I found I was reading a lot less of each day's newspaper, as it lacked the page-turning experience of a real newspaper, and I was constantly getting distracted by other links on the page. So I went back to using SmallNews.
iBooks is OK, but it's not a very good newspaper reader. There's just something about it which doesn't feel right for reading newspapers. So I have switched to using GoodReader (only 59p/99c), which is a great PDF reader.
None of the existing PDF sizes created by SmallNews were quite right for the iPad screen - they all worked, but none of them were perfect. So I added another option to generate an iPad landscape-optimized PDF.

So there are now 4 different PDF versions available. This is clearly getting a bit silly, so in the next version I am going to change the way the PDF formats are chosen, allowing you to specify page size, font size, number of columns, etc, with the option to choose from a list of presets.

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